Leadership, Recognition and Well-Being: A Moderated Mediational Model

Considerable data has linked transformational leadership to employee well-being, but little research has focused on how transformational leaders influence employee well-being. In the current study, we examine whether transformational leaders engage in more recognition of employee efforts and whether that recognition is associated with enhanced well-being. We further examined whether transformational leaders give employees recognition in a manner that increases the association between recognition and well-being. With these two objectives, we test a moderated mediated model using survey data involving employees from a large health-care organization. The results suggest that transformational leaders provide more recognition to individual employees. Moreover, recognition is more strongly related to well-being when leaders are seen as transformational. Copyright (c) 2018 ASAC. Published by John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.